Bill Text: NY A05301 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Eliminates the maximum age for taking the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer or as an environmental conservation officer.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - print number 5301a [A05301 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05301-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         5301--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 17, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GIGLIO, THIELE, CROUCH, HAWLEY -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law and the executive law, in relation
          to  eliminating the maximum age limitation for appointment as a police
          officer or as an environmental conservation officer
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 58 of the civil
     2  service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  he  or she is not less than twenty years of age as of the date of
     5  appointment [nor more than thirty-five years of age as of the date  when
     6  the  applicant  takes the written examination, provided that the maximum
     7  age requirement of thirty-five years of age as set forth in  this  para-
     8  graph  shall  not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant to an exam-
     9  ination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen  hundred  nine-
    10  ty-nine   or  a  police  officer  in  the  department  of  environmental
    11  conservation, provided, however, that:
    12    (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding  a
    13  total  of  six  years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant
    14  who has passed his or her thirty-fifth birthday as provided in  subdivi-
    15  sion ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military law;
    16    (ii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply
    17  to  any  police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section
    18  1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously employed by the
    19  Buffalo municipal housing authority between January first, two  thousand
    20  five  and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who takes the next writ-
    21  ten exam offered after the effective date of this  subparagraph  by  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06726-03-6